The study followed 8,800 adults ages 25 and older for six and a half years and found that each daily hour of television viewing was associated with an 18 percent increase in deaths from heart disease and an 11 percent increase in overall mortality.
via www.nytimes.com
Our physiology is best adapted to activity, not sitting! We are more like monkeys in trees than like sea sponges. Richard Dawkins' book The Ancestor's Tale does a wonderful job of taking us backward through evolution, all the way back to ctenophores like this
Fascinating stuff.
Recall the earlier article about arterial flexibility being related to trunk flexibility? Well this is where the rubber meets the road folks. You gotta move it, shake it, stretch it, and challenge your body. If you are only challenging your mind through PBS programs and science tomes your life expectancy will reflect that.
The NYTimes article about sitting and life expectancy is here.
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